On XSEDE, what is Spur?

Spur (spur.tacc.utexas.edu) is the Sun visualization cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Spur is intended for serial and parallel visualization applications that take advantage of large per-node memory, multiple computing cores, and multiple graphics processors.

Spur shares the InfiniBand interconnect and Lustre Parallel file systems of Ranger (TACC), so Spur acts not only as a powerful, stand-alone visualization system, it also enables researchers to perform visualization tasks on Ranger-generated data without migrating to another file system, and to integrate simulation and rendering tasks on a single network fabric.

For system specifications and user documentation, see the TACC Spur User Guide.

For more about XSEDE compute, advanced visualization, storage, and special purpose systems, see the Resources Overview and Resource Monitor. For scheduled maintenance windows, outages, and other announcements related to XSEDE digital services, see User News.

This document was developed with support from National Science Foundation (NSF) grant OCI-1053575. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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